That's fine. If people want to work in an inefficient manner and waste time, I'm not gonna stop them. I will take advantage of AI and I'm happy to do so. It makes my job within IT easier and that's nice!

Video games. They were fun as a kid on a rainy day but they're completely lost on me now

Why people are infatuated with celebrities.

Do you have anything concrete in mind? I don't feel like the atomic Fedora variants make it harder for me to mess with my computer once I've learned their approach.

I didn't want to learn their approach, I just wanted to install a software.

Sure, that's fair, but then you shouldn't go around saying "those distributions make it harder to mess with your computer". Your criticism seems to instead be "I can't use the tooling and processes I already know", which again is fair, but definitely a separate issue.

You're going to have the same issue with any distribution that uses a different package manager, and it wouldn't be fair to e.g. Alpine to say "it makes it harder to mess with my system since I can't use apt or dnf".

Yeah it just seems like a random style of cartoon to me, i dont get why ppl are obsessed w this one type. Im probably just too ignorant

Yes, I am also a molbio nerd. And yes, that stuff is built on actual chemical reactions and physical phenomena that you can demomstrate in the lab, and not theoretical physics

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BUT I NEED A ROOM FOR ALL MY PRECIOUS MOMENTS FIGURINES!!!

At first I thought you were talking about whacking off to golf

“Can’t stop the signal, Mal.”

Nope! I'm a wolf! :3

I'm trans, but for species instead of gender. Yeah that's a thing. 🐺

-- Frost

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Same here. And it used to cripple me during meetings, and basic conversations with coworkers. I’ve worked in sales, construction, and inventory management and the sports convos were inescapable and apparently a huge key to relating to customers and colleagues.

Just could never get into it, and not the type to fake it either. Unless I’m playing the sport, I could give a fuck less about others who I do not and will not ever know playing a sport.

Yeah! https://www.debian.org/CD/live/, the little teeny "live KDE" link. =^.^=

You don't want the "netinst" ISO on the main page. It technically works, but it's a pain to use and needs internet access to install. Its only redeeming quality is the small download size and fitting on a CD (if you're burning it to a CD-R which is unlikely).

I can count the number of streamers I'm a fan of on three fingers, and the number of Vtubers I can even name on one

Debian is weird in even having non-live ISOs, but they do have various live ones with different desktops! (Don't grab the one from the homepage, grab one of the live ones instead.)

My favorite thing about Christianity is how all the different sects pretend that every other sect isn't actually Christian

Haha yeah! :3 I uh, misread the critter I replied to as saying "I don't get it" rather than "I'm not even interested in getting it". Cue the massive infodump. >,,>

I'm not that sorry, though. It's still fun to talk about and also kinda hilarious that it happened.

-- Frost

Oh it's free

My least favorite thing about Linux is that I can't pirate it

They don't have respect. They just talk on those cell phones, and listen to their tape cassettes...

I don't need to learn to swim, I have thalassophobia. My plan if I ever fall into deep water is to die from a heart attack before I drown

video games have come a long way in the last few decades though. the variety of genre, play style, art style, etc. is absolutely astounding for someone that grew up playing bootleg games on a C64. There are some that are basically like an interactive movie, puzzle games, building games, and then your usual shooters and sports and mario-type platformers. If you ignore the AAA-slop, there's some really high quality content out there.

Oh, looks like I found mine.

I know nothing about both but since I suspect vtubbbing brached from anime subcultures I kinda get why they did.

Streamer though, I weirdly should be their demographic but I'm not.

I'm an avid gamer, I follow youtuber since vlog brother/smosh era, so I witness Pewds rise to fame but never find any joy in watching it live.

Like SovietWomble, his bullshitery series is top notch entertainment, I've rewatched the Arma and CS series multiple time, despite never played either one. Still didn't like watching it live.

I think because it's similar with the one with celebrities. I just don't care with the parasocial aspect of it.

I'll watch a lets play of games I play to get new ideas for play style or if I am not understanding a mechanic, or even just to learn how to play in the first place if the tutorial sucks

https://xkcd.com/2501/

It do be like that.

Like, most linux user seems to not understand that just being able to boot to other OS is witchcraft to the general population. Most of my friends never even heard of Linux. Their phone is the computer.

Lol, touché.

There are plenty with just one or two seasons and that’s it.

Tiktok and most kinds of short form content for me. I have a few friends into Tiktok and I'm sure it's fun but I just don't care to check it out.

I've tried to see what the appeal of short form content is. Twitter, mastodon, and bluesky have all ended up being a shitty RSS feed interrupted by the opinions of strangers for me. Now I'm just over trying to get it. It's just another weird ass thing that tonnes of people are into.

Same reason people like watching TV dramas. It's escapism. They get to vicariously live someone else's more colourful life - or are glad they're not living the celebrity's real or acted horrible life - for a short while to get away from their own.

And anyone on a screen is usually better-looking as well, which is a big draw.

Spicy food.

I can't comprehend how individuals or entire cultures choose to just deal with the pain until they build a tolerance.

Sure it probably made sense when the choice was to starve or to eat something that hurts (even a little), but as soon as non-painful food was available, why continue with the kind containing "Don't eat me!" chemicals?

Every time I put a damn pepper in my mouth I'm like WHY the hell did I just do that? Now my mouth is hot, the food feels so warm I can't even eat and I hate all of you!! 1!1!! 1

You don’t dive into the deep end of pain. You start with midline uncomfortable and work your way up.

Don't take anything I've said as being anti-Mac. I am much happier to be on Mac than Windows. I would be happy on Linux as well, perhaps happier, but the corporate world being what it is, it turns out Linux doesn't make it easy to load a computer up with a bunch of spyware.

Okay, I'll be fair. Windows and MacOS are like... 3 things (If you still support Mac on Intel). Linux is like.... 500 OSes. Even if you strip it down and support the most common, you're looking at Arch (so customized that might as well be a separate OS for each user), Ubuntu, Fedora, and maybe Mint. So it's way more work to support Linux even if Linux were as easy to support as Mac and Windows, and I believe it is not.

I'm very happy with my Mac. But my wife hates things that change. She's one of those people who will hang onto a 15 year old laptop because "everything is the way I want it," even if it's all janky as hell.

Debian is weird in even having non-live ISOs

I see the model of ‘burn seven dvds to then have every package under the sun’ is alive and well.

But why though?

A good reason why I don't want to "get" Linux is this guy posted in this thread with Linux as his example, and it's the most replied to thread with each user trying to justify their distro.

This is like me going into a bible belt small town, expressing my spiritual beliefs, and watching as each of the individual churches try to try and "save" me.

Until Linux users "get" why Windows is the marketshare leader and not demonize it like the spawn of Satan when it's literally just an OS on a completely optional piece of hardware, I don't think I'll ever "get" Linux.

Though I do care very much for Android if that counts. 😉

it's not painful to people who have a natural tolerance to it

It's not about quality.

Don't be offended, I realize I'm the weirdo here, but they seem so pointless to be so time consuming. Entertainment in general is pointless, but I don't spend hundreds of hours watching a movie.

I'm not into TV either though, so maybe it's sitting still that I don't like.

I just gonna TLDR my list:

1. Brands
2. New Music (Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren)
3. Religious fanatics, my parents specifically
4. Hookah
5. Calculus

I like a little spice but don't get the people who are like "I'm ordering the flaming asshole wings. Boy, my asshole is going to be on fire tomorrow."

You know what I like? Not having a flaming asshole. We live in a world where food has a neverending variety of flavors. Get one of the many delicious flavors that don't involve scorching your asshole.

In some people it causes the body to releases enough internal happy drugs that it is worth the discomfort.

And honestly, in the coming age of "OSes that don't spy on you will be illegal!!", I'm really, really glad for that. We've got the entire 27-ISO set of Debian 13.0.0 squirreled away. There's even more discs for the sources, and they go to great lengths to ensure that everything can be built with no external dependencies that aren't available in the archive.

Debian: It's Apocalypse-Proof.™

-- Frost

I’m the same way.

Put on a movie and I’m asleep before the first scene is done.

I’m a tinkerer, need something to do with my hands and keep my mind occupied or I lose all interest. Video games often fill that but don’t feel useful in any way. They aren’t even a distraction from my real life, they’re just something to do I guess. Which isn’t what I like to do I guess

Reality TV or Anime? Cause either way, the medium just isn't my thing.

Why do you season things you cook? It’s delicious.